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The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist, foucauldian, patristic and queer hermeneutics. The book is organized into categories specific to transformation, spirit versus body, discourse, and source material. More than one essay focuses on female bodies and on the monstrous or evil body. While Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is central to most analyses, authors also cover The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and material in The History of Middle-earth.
Contents
Table of Contents
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Introduction (Christopher Vaccaro)
Part I. The Transformation of the Body
The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins (Verlyn Flieger)
Incorporeality and Transformation in The Lord of the Rings (Yvette Kisor)
Frodo's Body: Liminality and the Experience of War (Anna Smol)
Part II. The Body and the Spirit
The Hröa and Fëa of Middle-earth: Health, Ecology and the War (Matthew Dickerson)
The Ugly Elf: Orc Bodies, Perversion, and Redemption in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings (Jolanta N. Komornicka)
Part III. The Discursive Body
Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)? Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings (Robin Anne Reid)
A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings (Gergely Nagy)
Part IV. The Body and the Source Material
Emblematic Bodies: Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence (James T. Williamson)
Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: A Gift Looks for Gain in the Gifting Economy of Middle-earth (Jennifer Culver)
Tolkien's Whimsical Mode: Physicalities in The Hobbit (Christopher Vaccaro)
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